Meet Spiderette
The following details apply here. The tableau contains seven columns rather than ten. Four complete same-suit King-to-Ace runs win the game. Spiderette on snbdavid.com uses one 52-card deck with all four suits. The smaller deck does not remove the need to manage suit changes.
The opening staircase
The following details apply here. Only the bottom card of each initial column is face up. The seventh opening column contains seven cards. The first opening column contains one card and each following column contains one more. The opening tableau contains 28 cards altogether.
The remaining deck
Here are the details for this mode. The stock is used in deals of seven, seven, seven and three cards. A full stock deal adds one card to each of the seven columns. Spiderette begins with 24 cards in the stock. The final stock deal contains three cards for the first three columns.
Build down by rank
Keep these points in mind. A King can enter only an empty column because no rank is higher. A destination card may belong to a different suit. A single exposed card can land on another exposed card exactly one rank higher. Any exposed card may enter an empty column.
Move a sequence
A few details help explain this feature. A mixed-suit descending sequence cannot move as one group. A movable group must be face up and descend in one suit. Selecting a shorter matching segment can reveal an available group move. The selected group's leading card determines which destination rank is legal.
Open the hidden layout
No separate click is needed to reveal a newly uncovered card. An exposed hidden card can create another possible destination. Undo restores a hidden card's earlier state when the revealing action is reversed. Moving all exposed cards off a hidden card turns that hidden card face up.
Prepare to use the stock
Any valid movable group can fill an empty column. This Spiderette version requires every column to contain a card before a stock deal. A stock deal may interrupt a sequence you were assembling. An empty column prevents dealing even when only the final three stock cards remain.
Collect all four suits
A few details help explain this feature. A qualifying run contains thirteen cards of one suit from King down to Ace. A complete face-up run is removed automatically from the bottom of a column. One run is needed for spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds. Four collected runs account for every card in the deck.
Learn the shorter game
A few details help explain this feature. Hint suggests a legal move without checking every possible future continuation. A random Spiderette shuffle is not advertised as guaranteed winnable. Replay starts the same Spiderette shuffle again. Undo reverses a successful move or stock deal while recent history is available.
Local progress and results
Reloading the page can resume that position. My Statistics records Spiderette separately from standard Spider. Spiderette has its own saved position in this browser when saving is enabled. Clearing this website's local game data removes the saved Spiderette position and results.